V. I. Lenin

Telegram To The Samara Ukrainians

Delivered:16 or 17 of December, 1918First Published:1942 Published according to the telegramSource:Lenin’sCollected 
Works,	4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 28, page 367Translated:Jim RiordanTranscription/HTML Markup:David Walters &	Robert CymbalaOnline Version:V. I. Lenin Internet ArchiveMay, 2002

Samara, Gubernia Military Commissar for Samara Ukrainians

Consider it necessary to inform you in reply to telegram sent by
      Samara Ukrainians that in view of influx of Ukrainian volunteers
      and abundance of conscripts in Ukraine itself still without
      arms, Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine
      considers it unnecessary to call up Ukrainians in Russia and
      dispatch them to Ukraine. In name of Council of People’s
      Commissars propose you stop sending Ukrainian units to Ukraine.

Lenin, Stalin